Dear Steven,I used the NJStar Chinese Word Processor program to translate the lyrics into pinyin. The program is able to take a bunch of characters and to give back the pinyin for the characters with the tones either above the pinyin or as numbers behind the pinyin. You can get a 30-day demo version of the program at www.njstar.comIt’s really very good.取 消 資 格 陳 小 春qu3 xiao1 zi1 ge2 chen2 xiao3 chun1

aa = a in car, a = a in aboutu = o in who, i = ea in teae = ai in air (stand alone)o = o in hot (British accent)oe = like er in her (French oe or German &Ouml;)ue = French u or German &Uuml;oeue = oe + uets = q in Mandarindz = z in Mandaring = always hard, like g in goatfinal -k, -t, -p are like glottal stops

Is it Yale's?: aa = a in car, a = a in about: u = o in who, i = ea in tea: e = ai in air (stand alone): o = o in hot (British accent): oe = like er in her (French oe or German Ö): ue = French u or German Ü: oeue = oe + ue: ts = q in Mandarin: dz = z in Mandarin: g = always hard, like g in goat: final -k, -t, -p are like glottal stops

Not really - It's standard Cantonese transliteration with some modifications. http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Canton2/59finals.htmlhttp://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Canton2/syllabaryI personally prefer to use y for /j/ (y in yes, not j in pinyin) and ue for /y/. Same with dz and ts.: Is it Yale's?: : aa = a in car, a = a in about: : u = o in who, i = ea in tea: : e = ai in air (stand alone): : o = o in hot (British accent): : oe = like er in her (French oe or German Ö): : ue = French u or German Ü: : oeue = oe + ue: : ts = q in Mandarin: : dz = z in Mandarin: : g = always hard, like g in goat: : final -k, -t, -p are like glottal stops

: : Did you do the typing yourself or is there a program that can do the job of transliteration?: I typed in the transliteration myself.Certainly the best choice. A number ofcharacters have multiple readings, which aprogram cannot handle accurately.

Dear Thomas,Are you the Thomas Chan who wrote the Cantonese annotation program in Perl on the net? The one who wrote the program has his e-mail address at OSU while yours is at Cornell University.Kobo-Daishi, PLLA.

: Are you the Thomas Chan who wrote the Cantonese annotation program in Perl on the net? The one who wrote the program has his e-mail address at OSU while yours is at Cornell University.Yes, that was me. It was the first half of asimple text-to-speech program--while a lot ofthe transcription work is automated, you'restill given the chance to manually proof it(and if necessary, revise it) before the secondhalf builds the resultant .wav file. e.g.,words like leng3jai2 'handsome boy' andleng1jai2, tong4 'sugar' and tong2 'candy', orting1 'to hear' and teng1 'to hear' are writtenthe same way, and can't be distinguished by aprogram.